PolitiFact - A wind turbine can produce in months, not years, more energy than was needed to manufacture it

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Experts told us a wind turbine can produce more energy than was needed to manufacture it in months. It doesn't take years, as an Instagram post claimed.

Here’s a look at some of the research we found that was published by university researchers in peer-reviewed journals:by European researchers found that the payback on onshore steel wind-turbine towers was four to six months.

Most of the evidence we found on energy payback says it takes a wind turbine operating for months, not years, to produce more energy than was needed to manufacture it.

 

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